While one can easily buy all the jams and jellies that you need at your local store, it is sometimes fun to get old-fashioned and make these confections in your home and put your own personal labels on the jar.   Here you'll find a bunch of recipes to make the best tasting homemade jams and preserves.  These recipes are all natural, no chemicals added, and you'll find that nothing can top the taste of homemade cooking.  One might be a little confused about the difference between jam, jelly, and preserves.  Almost any fruit can be made into jam by mashing or slicing it fine, adding an equal amount of sugar and simmering until it reaches proper consistency.  Preserves on the other hand differ from jam in that the fruit maintains its shape, so strawberry preserves you would find a whole strawberry as an example.  Jelly on the other hand can only be made out of fruits that contain enough pectin, these fruits are, plums, apples, grapes, and berries such as raspberries, blackberries, and cranberries.  You can add artificial pectin to other fruits to make it in to a jelly, but it doesn't have the same taste as the jellies that can be made with natural fruits.  Also jelly is made by extracting the juice from the fresh fruit and cooking it with sugar.

     With that explained, please click on the recipe section to get a sampling of all the wonderful recipes that are on this website.  If you have any questions or comments please feel free to email me.  Thank you for stopping by my website!